FIFA confirm World Cup winners to receive $50million cash prize

MONEY MONEY MONEY: Argentina's Lionel Messi with the FIFA World Cup Trophy as FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani look on. Pic: Martin Rickett/PA Wire.

FIFA has confirmed 50 million US dollars (€42.6m) will be up for grabs for the winning nation at next summer's World Cup, as a row over ticket prices for the tournament rages on.

The FIFA Council approved prize money for the tournament at a meeting in Doha on Wednesday, with the overall fund available to competing nations set at 727m US dollars (€620m), up 50 per cent on the 2022 finals in Qatar.